Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

There’s a Universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Gravitational wave observations have revolutionized our understanding of black holes, revealing crucial details about their ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Typically, summer internships are about gaining work experience and networking. But for Midshipman Olivia Rae Achenbach, her ...

The latest one in this class is even more puzzling. It has been dubbed Inkathazo, and it is truly massive, with cosmic jets spanning 3.3 million light-years from one end to the other. That’s ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...